Fox News’ Nick Meo has written an article about the new search for the “Wild Man” seen with the “feral woman.” The following is the new info in that piece:

Villagers celebrating the return of a young woman 18 years after she disappeared into the jungle are planning to hunt the “wild man” who may have kidnapped and held her captive. The naked and long-haired man was spotted, apparently armed with a sword, along with the woman as they tried to steal food in a remote province in northeast Cambodia.

The villagers chased them both, catching her, but reported that he was able to escape into the trees. They now plan a manhunt for the mysterious figure, and also hope to find the woman’s younger sister who also disappeared 18 years ago, it emerged yesterday.

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Ro Cham Chanthy, the younger sister of the two girls, told Cambodia Daily that villagers were afraid of the “wild man”. She said: “He had a long sword and villagers could not capture him. He had tattoos and made his eyes very wide, so the villagers were very afraid.”

When the young women vanished the region was covered with dense forest but it has been steadily cut back in recent years for cashew and rubber plantations, leading to speculation that the “wild man’s” home is shrinking and perhaps forcing him to make foraging raids.

The region is one of the most remote in Cambodia, home to minority tribes, and has a long history of legends of people living in the forest, including wild men. The forest also provided shelter to refugees from the Khmer Rouge and the civil war that followed its fall.

The young woman was said to be becoming more responsive to her family yesterday, with whom she is now living, although she has made at least one attempt to escape back to the jungle. “This is my daughter, I am sure of it,” Ro Cham Soy, Mr Ksor’s wife, said.

Since she was captured the young woman has spent much of her time watching DVD movies. Large numbers of well wishers have travelled to see her and left donations but her family had to be vigilant after local police talked of exhibiting her in a cage and charging the curious to see her.

Many villagers believe that she was taken as a sacrifice by the jungle gods who have returned her for their own reasons. Buddhist priests have been called in to cleanse her of evil spirits. District Police Chief Mao San said: “They are praying that the jungle spirit is finished with the girl and will allow her to stay here.”

Ro Cham H’pnhieng may be traumatised as she is described as having “sad eyes”, is said to be afraid of people and refuses to touch rice or porridge, only eating meat or fruit.

Police in the area have responded to the case with bemusement. Mr Mao, the district police chief, told villagers that they could look for the wild man if they wanted to but said there were no plans for a police search of the jungle….

Perhaps nothing to do with the Nguoi Rung, but interesting to watch this unfold, anyway.

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Well, for those of you who are looking for an old fashioned girl I think I know where to find one. But seriously, I see this as being a huge ethical dilema. She no doubt wants to return to the wild. I would implant a GPS chip in her and follow her around the jungle. She may lead us to a treasure trove of primitives OR the Nguoi Rung as they may have contacts with them.

She “may be traumatised as she is described as having sad eyes”. No doubt she’s traumatised, she’s been captured and taken away from her environment and now priests are cleansing her of evil spirits, while she’s watching DVDs. I’d be having “sad eyes” too!

The swords, tattos, etc are making it look more and more to me like this is just a kidnapping albeit a very bizzarre one. I hope they find out who the “wild man” is because he may still be a threat to the girl. Really interesting watching this unfold, even though it is probable there is no cryptozoology link.

Maybe the man they are talking about was a “Montagnard”. The Montagnards were the folks depicted in Apocolypse Now and are very mysterious forest folk who know no boundaries. I say they let her go back. Before you know it she’ll be working for Nike like they all do.